Brain Teasers and Riddles

They make you think, they make you laugh, they make you wonder, and they make you ponder. Yes, they are the puzzling riddles! Here are a few that will tease you, tickle you and make you think real hard for some of the simplest of answers!

Mukta Gaikwad

Last Updated: Feb 24, 2018

Calculators and computers discourage our ability to think, leading the brain to sit idle and be the infamous devil's workshop. Forget your boredom, and put your mind to a constructive use to solve some of these brain teasers which are loads of fun, once you get down to solving them. Those long drives with friends that get boring will definitely take an interesting turn with the funniest answers that these riddles would make them think of. From general knowledge questions for adults to riddles for kids, you would have enough brain work to do. Let's see the toughest questions that have the simplest answers.

Bookkeeper. The letters 'oo', 'kk', and 'ee' appear consecutively and doubly in the word 'bookkeeper'.

Q8. If I give you a group of three, one who is sitting down and will never get up. The second, who eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third, who goes away and never returns. What are we?

Stove, fire, smoke. Here 'stove' represents the one who is always sitting, 'fire' which eats or consumes everything and is yet hungry for more, and finally 'smoke' which gets flown away with air, only never to return.

Q9. If you break meI do not stop working,If you touch meI may be snared,If you lose meNothing will matter. Who am I?

Your heart, because you can be heartbroken, but still have a heart. If someone's good deed touches your heart, you get entrapped with the feeling, and the day you lose your heart, you cease to exist, which precisely means nothing matters.

Q10. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

What seemed like easy questions to answer, made you think the most. These brain-racking riddles add fun to social gatherings and friendly meetings. Riddles keep you engaged for hours and make you think of permutations and combinations of possible answers. Solving riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers accelerate your thinking ability and boost your memory and reasoning skills. The cumulative effect of this is seen through a sharp intellect and great logical reasoning. Just as your body requires exercise and a healthy diet for building strength and vitality, the gray cells too need some charging from time to time.